The experience that project Creative Digital Spaces has provided us has been enriching and timely. We at Casa de la Juventud have a group of young people who are a reference when it comes to designing our projects and, in general, all the activities of our Youth Delegation, as they have an important mission within our organization and also outside of it, as we were awarded the Young Andalusia Award in 2021.
They are an active group with whom we took refuge during the pandemic using basic tools:
- Video calls;
- Online games (initially simple);
- Virtual escape rooms require a greater number of digital tools to have a satisfactory user experience.
Participating in the Creative Digital Spaces project has come to satisfy many of our needs, some implicit and others we were unable to define.
We are very proud to belong to this project and have carried it as a banner in our daily work. We belong to the Participe+ Network, a group of Andalusian municipalities where quality work with rural youth is crucial. Structured dialogue is our first rule, and our performance involves the political class, young people, and youth technical staff. With them, we have shared the progress with CDS project in our monthly meetings. We have had the opportunity to experiment with some of the tools in our toolbox, and they have subsequently implemented them in their daily work.
We have had the opportunity to share our multiplier event with them in a formal meeting where they have shown interest in learning more tools, given the practical application they had made of the ones they had learned previously. They have valued each of the three chapters of our manual very positively but have kept a particular interest in the toolbox.
Of course, the young people in the group of correspondents have also benefited from all the project outputs, and some of them have even had the opportunity to participate directly in the youth exchange generated within the activity. The group of correspondents has been directly and indirectly involved in the project. They have experienced youth exchange training in Hungary. They have attended the multiplier activity in person and have benefited from the knowledge acquired and implemented in meetings in which they participated. Subsequently, they had the opportunity to use the concepts in activities with their peers.
The different professional meetings we participate in are ideal moments to share our experiences in our daily work with young people. Of course, Creative Digital Spaces is always reflected in them.
In the recent international youth meetings edition 41 of Cabueñes (Gijón, Asturias, Spain), we commented on the experience and shared the outputs with youth technicians from all over the country. We are planning to send them the project’s final results, as they have requested.
The Creative Digital Spaces project has also been presented on local radio, where we have had the opportunity to talk on several occasions about the development of the project and the benefits it has brought directly to us and our environment, extending them to all its audience.
Author: Kico Navas Adamuz
Foto: Casa de la Juventud
Images: Leonardo AI
